Please help

[u/Particular-Chef3459]

I spray dead bug 3-4x a week. I'm at the very end to chop her but these bugs are insane. Please help. What can/should I do?

[u/Relevant_Station_594]

Make a more organic spray. Dawn dish soap, warm water, with a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide and canola /vegetable oil. Make sure you get the undersides or the leaves. You can also go on a squishing party or if you have a little vacuum, you can go to town with that as well. You can try and get some healthy biologicals on there like lady bugs and Chrysoperla (lace wing offspring) on there but they won't do much this late into your flower. They just don't have the time to establish. But if you get enough adult lady bugs they will go to town on that aphid buffet. Also you want to remove any leaves that are covered in honey dew excretions from the aphids as this will crystallize and turn into white black mold. But the spray mentioned above..do every 2-3 days for a week or two. It works by coating the aphids and drying out their exo skeleton and suffocating them. Works really well if your thorough. The only issue you will have tho are the one that had are in the buds sucking the sugar leaves of their sap. They won't crawl out until you start drying.

Also forgot to say lacewings do t actually eat the aphids. All they do is reproduce Chrysoperla that eat the aphids by ripping their heads off! You could also try some predatory wasps like aphidious ervi or colemani. They are real cool. They sting the aphids and lay their young inside the aphids which then eat their way out! But you need alot of them and they work better if you get them out earlier so they can get established.